Hendrik Lorenz, Lorenz

The Brute Within

Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle

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Produktbeschreibung

Hendrik Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire, which they see as something that humans share with animals. Lorenz sheds fresh light, not only on both philosophers' theories of motivation, but also on how they conceive of the mind, both in itself and in relation to the body

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780199561698
• ISBN-10: 0199561699
• Artikelnr.: 26100776

Autorenporträt

Hendrik Lorenz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. Appetite and Reason in Plato's Republic
1: Parts of the soul
2: The argument for tripartition
3: Partition
4: The simple picture
II. Belief and Appearance in Plato
5: Imitation and the soul
6: Belief and reason
7: Below belief and reason
III. Phantasia and Non-Rational Desire in Aristotle
8: Preliminaries
9: Phantasia, desire, and locomotion
10: Desire without phantasia
11: The workings of phantasia
12: Phantasia and practical thought
13: Reason and non-rational desire
Conclusion